[parisc-linux] Help with posix_types.h

[John David Anglin]

The largest disk currently available I believe is the 180GB Seagate Baracuda.
The size of drives is increasing about a factor of 2 per year.  The
__kernel_off_t definitely needs to be 64 bits to handle large drives
in both 32 and 64 bit systems.  Disk blocks are typically 512 or 1024 bytes.
Thus, drives may exceed 4GB disk blocks in 3-4 years.  Inodes are variable
in size (8KB average).  Thus, we are a little further away from exceeding
the 32 bit inode limit.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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